What are those little boxes above that area? It looks to me as if they correspond to menu items at the bottom of each screen. So, it seems as if it’s possible to still operate aspects of the tablet without using the stylus on the screen itself. If that’s the case, it’s very clever thinking. It would mean the tablet isn’t totally useless if you lose the stylus.

Pocket Lint had a hands-on with the device and the bottom strip was already gone by then.

I have no idea what that means. The eBook reading software is unknown at this time but it does support Adobe DRM, so eBooks bought from Sony, Kobo/Borders, and maybe even those borrowed from public libraries should work (public library eBooks are iffy due to the timing DRM bits that must accompany the file, as Bluefire Reader discovered early in its life).

I’m getting more interested in the Asus Eee Note the more I find about it. This really could change things in the eBook hardware market.